I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.